Practise yoga daily to a lead healthy life, says Prakasam District Collector
Prakasam District Collector A. Thameem Ansaria on Wednesday said that if everyone practises yoga regularly as a daily activity, they can achieve a healthy and happy life. The Collector inaugurated 'Yoga Sadhana', curtain raiser for upcoming International Yoga Day, at Kendriya Vidyalaya School in Ongole.
Santhanuthalapadu MLA B.N. Vijaya Kumar, Ongole City Mayor Gangada Sujatha, APTDC Chairman Dr. Nookasani Balaji, Joint Collector R. Gopala Krishna and others participated in the event. Several students practised yoga under the guidance of yoga guru Patanjali Balasubramaniam
Ms. Ansaria said, 'As Prime Minister Narendra Modi is coming to our State to take part in the 11th International Yoga Day celebrations to be held in Visakhapatnam on June 21, Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu directed officials to organise large-scale awareness programmes on yoga across the State'.
The Collector said that the special yoga programmes are being conducted for a month by involving all sections of people in villages and towns of the district to highlight the benefits of practising yoga.
Ms. Ansaria said that an action plan has also been prepared to create awareness on yoga in all schools and colleges in the district. She said that everyone must know the benefits of doing yoga and should make it a part of their daily lives. She said that the Chief Minister has mentioned slogan of 'happy, healthy and wealthy citizens' in the Swachh Andhra Vision-2047.
MLA Vijaya Kumar said, 'Recognising the importance of yoga, which originated in India, June 21 was declared as International Yoga Day in 2014, and since then Yoga Day has been celebrated every year. Yoga helps in reducing our physical, mental and stress. It keeps the mind calm. Everyone should participate in the month-long yoga programme being organised across the State.'
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